Word: entrepreneurs
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Brandeis became more & more in demand as a business adviser on his terms: to oppose any proposed course which would harm the general situation, on grounds that what would harm the general situation would also harm the entrepreneur. He became the exponent of free enterprise, and by free he meant free; free of the "curse of bigness."his famed phrase, which he applied to monopolies; and also free of unnecessary Federal or State interference...
Lacking funds, Entrepreneur Doster appealed to NBC for help. Forthwith C. Lloyd Egner, head of NBC's radio-recording division, got together a ton of top-flight recordings, dispatched them to the Zone. Among them went a series of recordings made especially for the Jungleers by Actress Lawrence, now an honorary Jungle-Mudder, 1st Class...
...Entrepreneur of this quadruple play was an Italian count (who likes to be called Mr.), debonair Giovanni Naselli. Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, and hence a U.S. citizen, the count is no Fascist although he spent about ten years making rayon and lire in the Rome branch of the huge Società Generate Italiana della Viscosa, a world leader in cheap rayon manufacture. In 1933 he went to Mexico City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make...
...move was to create "coal shock reserves" strategically scattered throughout the Greater Reich, and intended to prevent shortages in case of "railroad congestion" (i.e., R.A.F. bombing). The Volkischer Beo-bachter gave Herr Pleiger its official Party blessing, called the new coal setup "an extension of initiative," declaimed: "The [German] entrepreneur today, in contrast to the time of democracy, no longer looks into an insecure future...
Apparently nervous over the fact that Carroll's balding head, which gives him the look of a village deacon, might detract from the glamor to be associated with a dashing entrepreneur of naked floor shows, Paramount suggested that Carroll wear a wig in the picture. Carroll refused, explained: "A bald-headed boulevardier has more appeal for women than any clumsy youngster, no matter how well covered is his scalp...